dubbin
1: tallow mixed with oil; used to make leather soft and waterproof
dubiety
1: the state of being unsure of something [syn: {doubt}, {uncertainty}, {incertitude}, {doubtfulness}, {dubiousness}] [ant: {certainty}]
dubious
1: fraught with uncertainty or doubt; "they were doubtful that the cord would hold"; "it was doubtful whether she would be admitted"; "dubious about agreeing to go" [syn: {doubtful}] 2: open to doubt ...
dubiously
1: in a questionable and dubious manner; "these were estates his father questionably acquired" [syn: {questionably}] 2: in a doubtful manner; "Gerald shook his head doubtfully" [syn: {doubtfully}]
dubiousness
1: the state of being unsure of something [syn: {doubt}, {uncertainty}, {incertitude}, {dubiety}, {doubtfulness}] [ant: {certainty}] 2: uncertainty about the truth or factuality of existence of someth...
dubitable
1: open to doubt or suspicion; "the candidate's doubtful past"; "he has a dubious record indeed"; "what one found uncertain the other found dubious or downright false"; "it was more than dubitable whe...
Dublin
1: capital and largest city and major port of the Irish Free State [syn: {Irish capital}, {capital of Ireland}]
DuBois Heyward
1: United States writer (1885-1940) [syn: {Heyward}, {Edwin DuBois Hayward}]
Dubonnet
1: (trademark) a sweet aromatic French wine (red or white) used chiefly as an apertif
Dubrovnik
1: a port city in southwestern Croatia on the Adriatic; a popular tourist center [syn: {Ragusa}]
Dubuque
1: a town in eastern Iowa on the Mississippi River
Dubya
1: 43rd President of the United States; son of George Herbert Walker Bush (born in 1946) [syn: {Bush}, {George Bush}, {George W. Bush}, {George Walker Bush}, {President Bush}, {President George W. Bus...
Dubyuh
1: 43rd President of the United States; son of George Herbert Walker Bush (born in 1946) [syn: {Bush}, {George Bush}, {George W. Bush}, {George Walker Bush}, {President Bush}, {President George W. Bus...
Duc d'Elchingen
1: French marshal in the Napoleonic Wars (1769-1815) [syn: {Ney}, {Michel Ney}]
Duc de Richelieu
1: French prelate and statesman; principal minister to Louis XIII (1585-1642) [syn: {Richelieu}, {Armand Jean du Plessis}, {Cardinal Richelieu}]
Duc de Sully
1: French statesman (1560-1641) [syn: {Sully}, {Maxmilien de Bethune}]
ducal
1: of or belonging to or suitable for a duke; "ducal palace"
ducat
1: formerly a gold coin of various European countries
duce
1: leader; "Mussolini was called Il Duce"
Duchamp
1: French artist who immigrated to the United States; a leader in the Dada movement in New York City; was first to exhibit commonplace objects as art (1887-1968) [syn: {Marcel Duchamp}]
Duchenne's muscular dystrophy
1: the most common form of muscular dystrophy; inheritance is X-linked recessive (carried by females but affecting only males) [syn: {pseudohypertrophic dystrophy}]
duchess
1: the wife of a duke or a woman holding ducal title in her own right
Duchess of Ferrara
1: Italian noblewoman and patron of the arts (1480-1519) [syn: {Borgia}, {Lucrezia Borgia}]
Duchess of Windsor
1: United States divorcee whose marriage to Edward VIII created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication [syn: {Simpson}, {Mrs. Simpson}, {Wallis Warfield Simpson}, {Wallis Warfield Windsor}]
Duchesse de Valentinois
1: French noblewoman who was the mistress of Henry II; she had more influence over him than did his wife Catherine de Medicis (1499-1566) [syn: {Diane de Poitiers}]
duchy
1: the domain controlled by a duke or duchess [syn: {dukedom}]
duck
1: small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs 2: (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman [syn: {duck's egg}] 3: flesh of a duck (...
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duck sauce
1: a thick sweet and pungent Chinese condiment [syn: {hoisin sauce}]
duck shot
1: small lead shot for shotgun shells [syn: {bird shot}, {buckshot}]
duck soup
1: any undertaking that is easy to do; "marketing this product will be no picnic" [syn: {cinch}, {breeze}, {picnic}, {snap}, {child's play}, {pushover}, {walkover}, {piece of cake}]
duck's egg
1: (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman [syn: {duck}]
duck-billed
1: having a beak resembling that of a duck; "a duck-billed dinosaur" [syn: {duckbill}]
duck-billed dinosaur
1: any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet; may have been partly aquatic [syn: {hadrosaur}, {hadrosaurus}]
duck-billed platypus
1: small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae [syn: {platypus}, {duckbill}, {duckbilled...
duckbill
1: having a beak resembling that of a duck; "a duck-billed dinosaur" [syn: {duck-billed}] n 1: primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout [syn: {paddlefish}, {Polyodon ...
duckbilled platypus
1: small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae [syn: {platypus}, {duckbill}, {duck-bille...
duckboard
1: a boardwalk laid across muddy ground
ducking
1: hunting ducks [syn: {duck hunting}] 2: the act of wetting something by submerging it [syn: {submersion}, {immersion}, {dousing}]
ducking stool
1: an instrument of punishment consisting of a chair in which offenders were ducked in water [syn: {cucking stool}]
duckling
1: flesh of a young domestic duck 2: young duck
duckpin
1: a bowling pin that is short and squat by comparison with a tenpin
duckpins
1: a bowling game using a pin smaller than a tenpin but proportionately wider
ducks and drakes
1: a game in which a flat stone is bounced along the surface of calm water
duckweed
1: any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow ponds
duckweed family
1: family of small free-floating thalloid plants [syn: {Lemnaceae}, {family Lemnaceae}]
ducky
1: a special loved one [syn: {darling}, {favorite}, {favourite}, {pet}, {dearie}, {deary}]
duct
1: a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance; "the tear duct was obstructed"; "the alimentary canal"; "poison is released through a channel in t...
duct gland
1: a gland that secretes externally through a duct [syn: {exocrine gland}]
duct tape
1: a wide silvery adhesive tape intended to seal joints in sheet metal duct work but having many other uses; "duct tape holds the world together"
ductile
1: easily influenced [syn: {malleable}] 2: capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten...
ductility
1: the malleability of something that can be drawing into wires or hammered into thin sheets
ductless
1: not having a duct; "ductless glands"
ductless gland
1: any of the glands of the endocrine system that secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream [syn: {endocrine gland}, {endocrine}]
ductule
1: a very small duct [syn: {ductulus}]
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